A “recovering progressive” friend on Twitter apologized to me recently for the offensive behavior of fellow leftists who called in and left hateful messages at the headquarters of the conservative group FreedomWorks in Washington, D.C.

This man did not need to apologize to me. He had done nothing wrong. The responsibility for the reprehensible behavior is squarely on the shoulders of the base, unimaginative, hate-spewing individuals who left the messages. Were they representative of the left generally? Well, you don’t see a great hue and the cry in the press today, do you? Had this situation been reversed, on the other hand …

But that’s not the point.

In a free society, an individual bears sole responsibility for his actions. A whole race, gender, or generation does not bear guilt for the sins of some or even of many in that group of people. It’s unfair and wrong.

But liberals don’t believe this. For example, a white person carries the shame of slavery even if his family members never owned slaves and even if he himself worked to free those in bondage. White equals guilt. Or, as another example, “society” is guilty for creating the psychosexual environment in which frustrated men must rape in order to feel dominant. And then there are the more mundane things like “if she weren’t poor, she wouldn’t be compelled to steal that Ralph Lauren dress.”

A criminal wouldn’t be a criminal if he were loved more and society supported him, therefore it’s society’s fault that he is committing the fill-in-the-blank crime.

So who is to blame, then, when a black man rapes a woman? Would it be the rapist? No.

What follows is the harrowing and cognitively dissonant account of a woman’s rape at the hands of a black man she considered a friend. Her name is Amanda Kijera and here is her story:

Two weeks ago, on a Monday morning, I started to write what I thought was a very clever editorial about violence against women in Haiti. The case, I believed, was being overstated by women’s organizations in need of additional resources. Ever committed to preserving the dignity of black men in a world which constantly stereotypes them as violent savages, I viewed this writing as yet one more opportunity to fight “the man” on behalf of my brothers. That night, before I could finish the piece, I was held on a rooftop in Haiti and raped repeatedly by one of the very men who I had spent the bulk of my life advocating for.

It hurt. The experience was almost more than I could bear. I begged him to stop. Afraid he would kill me,I pleaded with him to honor my commitment to Haiti, to him as a brother in the mutual struggle for an end to our common oppression, but to no avail. He didn’t care that I was a Malcolm X scholar. He told me to shut up, and then slapped me in the face. Overpowered, I gave up fighting halfway through the night.

She continues:

Truly, I have witnessed as a journalist and human rights advocate the many injustices inflicted upon black men in this world. The pain, trauma and rage born of exploitation are terrors that I have grappled with every day of my life. They make one want to strike back, to fight rabidly for what is left of their personal dignity in the wake of such things. Black men have every right to the anger they feel in response to their position in the global hierarchy, but their anger is misdirected.

Women are not the source of their oppression; oppressive policies and the as-yet unaddressed white patriarchy which still dominates the global stage are. Because women — and particularly women of color — are forced to bear the brunt of the black male response to the black male plight, the international community and those nations who have benefited from the oppression of colonized peoples have a responsibility to provide women with the protection that they need.

How is it possible, after being the victim of a brutal rape, to absolve the perpetrator of guilt and point the finger at men of another color who are nowhere near one’s body? This projection is absolutely stunning and self-defeating.

The man who committed this crime committed it for his reason and his alone. Without holding him to account, what hope of change is there? If a person cannot own his behavior, he cannot change it.

This sort of rationalization would absolve white slave owners, by the way. They were simply victims of cultural thinking at the time. And the patriarchy? A remnant of twisted religious extremism.

No one would be responsible for any action at any time, anywhere. There is, after all, a context for every crime.

At the root of this absolution is a desire to push personal responsibility on the collective. Unfortunately, the collective was not in that room that night. One man raped one woman.

He alone is responsible. Excusing his behavior is a moral travesty. A society unravels when evil cannot be named and shamed.

Forget collective guilt. It is a collective shame that this sort of thinking permeates liberal thought. This belief in action will utterly destroy society should it go unchallenged.

Googling Amanda Kajira reveals what seems to be an unstable person. It’s unlikely she’ll “learn” anything from the experience, if it even happened at all. At her alleged website, http://site.helpingourselves.us/About.html, she claims a history of sexual abuse and teenaged prostitution.

Her essay reads like sexual fantasy, sheer polical pornography. She appears to be a troubled person and Haiti should deport her, immediately. All of this is in my opinion, of course.

She didn’t say that Amanda Kijera was a black woman. But it doesn’t matter what her skin color is, she is a misguided leftist who sees everything in term of race (thus a racist). If a black guy tripped on a pothole, probably she would blame white men in the city hall for purposely leaving a pothole unfixed just to trip black men.

This sort of leftist always talks about European colonialism, but never once think of other kinds of colonialism, like Arab colonialism that conquered North Africa, Middle East and all the way to the gates of Vienna.

“Forget collective guilt… This belief in action will utterly destroy society should it go unchallenged.”

I suggest you look at the national progression of thought that brought us from the late 1950s into a Whitehouse now occupied by a black man that has absolutely no hesitation or regret about doing anything within his power to inflict maximum damage and pain on any family member, person or group he chooses.

Re: 2. Laura, “Amanda Kijera, the pro-Haiti activist who was raped in Haiti, is white”. Perhaps Dr. Clouthier knows that being black means “special privileges and rights apply” when their victims are some sort of “stupid white” cops and/or women. Hence, her story would have been reduced to another instance of extremist racism.

The odds are that her rapist had absolutely no idea who in hell was Malcolm X. White guilt tripped lefties like her are among the few who even give a damn. Malcolm X is ancient history to most people, black or white.

I heard a remarkably similar tale from a Dutch tourist who was raped in New York City’s Central Park by a black man: she said “it was the only way he knew to get sex.” In her mind it was his environment, his upbringing, his schooling, or whatever, anything but his own behavior, his sense of risk vs. reward. She lived in an entirely white town in The Netherlands having little contact with black people, so her fantasy was that they were all the same and this is how they act, and it should be excused because…..

It was staggeringly racist on her part, to mind-read the motives of someone she didn’t know, to tell a book by its cover, if she hadn’t been traumatized by the rape I would have pointed out her blatant racism.

White, black, brown, green, yellow, it doesn’t matter the color of the person’s skin. Rape is rape. Rape is violence against the weak and should
be most forcefully comdemned and punished. There is no excuse for it, ever.

Under her logic then I, a white male, whose family never owned slaves, and who (individually) never raped anyone, am the guilty party and should do the time for the crime.
Nothing being said of the slavery that Germanic, Irish, Norse and other tribes had to endure from the cruel Romans that’s why we had WWI&II, and the War of the Roses, and the 30 Years War and, and … give me a break
She’s in denial at best and should really see a good therapist to get her head on straight.

“Black men have every right to the anger they feel in response to their position in the global hierarchy, but their anger is misdirected.

Women are not the source of their oppression; oppressive policies and the as-yet unaddressed white patriarchy which still dominates the global stage are. Because women — and particularly women of color — are forced to bear the brunt of the black male response to the black male plight, the international community and those nations who have benefited from the oppression of colonized peoples have a responsibility to provide women with the protection that they need.”

If one set out to write a parody of leftist twaddle, one couldn’t outdo this.

Black Africans have been enslaving Black Africans since the dawn of mankind. All of the aid given to Africa that get’s hijacked and held for ransom by black muslum africans. This aid intended for black africans. Billions in aid given to Haiti. $800 million pocketed by then leader Popa Doc. Truth is it’s been mostly American, mostly male mostly white mostly christian who have been sacrificing and saving the world from itself.

This really should have played out another way for her: She should have been debating the question of collective guilt while ejecting the spent cases from the hammerless .38 she used to put him down when he attacked her. But that’s just me talking….

Truly disturbing – One of the most unwavering aspects of the modern left is its truly breathtaking self-absorbed moral vanity. Events that do not fit the chosen narrative are either forgotten or explained away with the most tortured logic. The major reason that progressives can live in this cocoon is that all of the institutions that would, once-upon-a-time, call them on it, such as acedemia and the media, are now firmly in their hands. I have nothing but sympathy for any rape victim and certainly hope that this woman recovers from this deadful attack. However, if her attacker is, by some wild chance, actually caught and prosecuted it will be interesting to know what she plans to do. Appear as a witness for the defense?

I’ve read this story on several sites I’m entirely convinced it’s true. However true or not the point of this tale is to make us feel guilty for not embracing her white guilt fantasies before this assault. This women feels validated by this attack, other commentors here and elsewhere have expressed the hope that she gets the help she needs to cope with this attack. This alleged rape is the least of the mental health difficulties she faces.

Chambers, well said! As a sovereign individual who happens to be black, I find this patronizing, condescending narrative to be a more insidious form of racism, because it is clothed in benevolence and absolution. The underlying message is that I’m either too stupid or easily misled to be accountable for my actions and, while white people are supposedly to blame, I need other white people to save me? Excuse me?

As a Christian, Ezekiel 18:20 says it all for me: “The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.” Good enough for the Creator of the Universe, who loves all of us regardless of color, and to whom all have sinned, not just some, then it’s good enough for me. Melissa, thank you for shedding the light on this travesty. The compassion I feel for the victim is almost overcome by my revulsion with her worldview.

Funny, isn’t it? This benighted world is littered with examples of such personal horror but yet no one accepts the consequences of their personal actions. It always seems to be ‘society’s’ fault for leading impressionable youths to squander their lives by reveling in filth and never develop civilzed social skills. For them, the Law of the Jungle reigns supreme.

That being the case, the punishment should fit the crime. Man-beasts such as this should have their ability to rape again removed.

as I see it “collective guilt” is what “they” the leftists/progressives/malcolm x discontents use as part of their word weapons arsenal against those who (read us/conservatives/individual rights types).

I was listening to a radio show (yes liberal show ..I am in Canada) and there was a woman who thought that she was the last word on child advocacy.

…the show was talking about bundling toys with happy meals. (there is more then just a parallel here). It was all about blaming others (evil marketers) for all the obesity. She made excuses for the poor, she made excuses for the children ..she made excuses for the parents.

HOW about a LITTLE responsibility !

In Haiti it has been the strong man gets what every he can take. Society there allows it. Society in Haiti will not stop it so by default they allow it. Those abdicators of responsibility are here in north america too.

It is and always has been about responsibility …take it away … defer it to someone else …allow someone else to take it from you… this is what you get.

It produces a society I don’t want to live in and it is closer to you then you may think.

A very strange thing has been happening with the Liberal movement over the last 50 years. Gradually, they’ve come to accept violence against women as well as violence against children. Pedophilia is something to be discussed, not abhorred and crushed with ruthless force. The elderly are ‘an unnecessary problem’, life is ‘selective, based on need and placement’.

On top of that, Liberalism is a movement consumed with guilt and hate. Hate for women, minorities, Jews, Catholics, Christians, God, America, Capitalism, the military, freedom, individualism, and most of all the unborn.

who Alice ? the black man for not also raping a black woman to show no favoritism / bias / lack of equality ? or the white woman for apologizing for whites that she had to be raped to atone for something. something not done by her but other white women. since if the black man had raped a man then it would be because he was angry and getting back at white men because ….what ??? did a white man rape him ? did all white men rape him ?

I cannot believe the rapist didn’t step away when she told him she was a
Malcolm X scholar !!

OMG…. If a person chooses to do wrong, they are making the choice, not me, not you, not the color of his skin, or that mommy didn’t love him enough,not slavery of manymanymany generations ago. Hell many of the black people got sold into slavery by their own black people! Go find their decendents and rape them. He chose to do wrong…
…. I still can’t believe he didn’t stop when she told him she was a Malcolm X scholar, the shame!! Collective guilt is not something I buy into. The “left” could be our downfall..

Pure “leftist twaddle” as Boehmond says above.
>>>PLUS!!!! I need to hear Whoopi’s take on this “so called” rape before I can take it seriously…

Ironically what this woman was saying is this: ALL BLACK MEN HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE RAPISTS…but it’s not their fault. LOL. Sounds a lot like the…KKK to me. What goes around, comes back at you. Only when it is “sanitized and laundered” through the rinse cycle in the mind of a left wing lunatic can the same conclusion be acceptable?

Exactly. Someone should ask Robert Byrd (D-KKK) about the “remedy” the KKK meted out to black men in Southern states under Democratic rule. It consisted of a choice of being lynched or castrated – each considered a way to “deal with” the black man’s “sexual deviance and violent tendencies”. Margaret Sanger – hero to Hillary Clinton and other liberals – also advanced the eugenics driven “Negro Project” in the 1920′s and 1930′s to maximize the number of aborted black babies. Hitler was so taken with the “scientific approach” of the American eugenics movement that he requested and received information and assistance from the US eugenics leaders.

Racism and fascism has intersected in the liberal/progressive section of the political spectrum for 100 years.

It is good to see a foot doctor branching out into writing and the t-party movement. I think it is very important that folks, other than career activists and politicians care about the issues of our day. However, Rape is an act of violence. It has “absolutely nothing” to do with Gender, Politics, Race or Ethnic Origin. And I am sure that after careful consideration, in the twentyfirst century, we can all agree on that. Thanks.

I am just stunned silent by her stupidity. Does it not occur to her and others like her that having lower expectations for black men’s behavior, they are treating them like children (or animals), which is damned prejudiced?

You’ll notice that rape and assault has been rampant in Haiti, and was rampant in the Katrina refugees, but was not a problem in kentucky et al a few winters ago during that catastrophic ice storm the media said nothing about. I’ll refrain from speculating as to why.

During the horrendous Iowa floods a few years back I think the number of rapes was at zero. I wonder if this woman ever told her black johns from when she was a teenage prostitute that she was a Malcolm X scholar to turn them on.

“Black men have every right to the anger they feel in response to their position in the global hierarchy … ”

Huh? Where did she learn this nonsense? At home? In college? This is white guilt on steroids. She should have pulled out a gun and shot his testicles off, and the rapist would have been demoted to an even lower position in the global hierarchy.

I would hasten to point out that almost a million White men gave their lives in the American Civil War to put an end to slavery. White Americans suffered enormous psychological damage, physical damage, and property damage as well to put an end to the evil of slavery.
I would add that it was White Americans who recognized the inherent evil of Jim Crow laws and de facto segregation and demanded that the hugely majority White Houses of the Congress and the Senate pass legislation outlawing both. And that this legislation was initiated by and carefully drafted by a White Southern President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
I only wish that the African Americans who whine and moan about slavery, segregation, and White racism would occasionally see fit to recognize the sacrifice, courage, and moral backbone of the majority of White Americans who put an end to these evils.
Instead all we, I am White and a was a Southerner by the way, have gotten are more demands for reparations, quotas, and other entitlements from African Americans.
It is long since past the time for the African American community to stand up and take responsibility for itself and it’s problems of out of wedlock birth, single parent families, high school dropouts, drug and alcohol abuse, and all the other problems facing them.
For God’s sake, it’s been over 50 years since Jim Crow, and four generations of African Americans have come and gone, and yet these problems remain. By this time it can no longer be laid at the door of America’s White Community, with silly and irresponsible charges of racism.

Did this really happen? I have been flummoxed before so a person could advance their narrative. I like her attitude of forgiveness. But she also seems to blame anyone but the criminal. God forbid he rapes some children next. Or maybe he already has. If he goes after a full grown woman and can easily overpower her, how much easier to just overpower little children. I hope the police are looking for this bastard.

With all due respect to Melissa, I think this lady made this up. It just didn’t ring true for some reason. Call it a hunch or women’s intuition. I am not sure I buy this story at all.
And by the way, how on earth is it white man’s fault when there are no white people in Haiti? Or at least none with great power like most whites tend to do. You know, typical white people that is.

That was my first impression when I began reading this:
She just happens to have started writing an article on this very subject?
It just happens to be a colleague?
He takes her to a roof, outdoors in a densely populated city and no one hears her cries?
He rapes her all night???
She gives up fighting in the middle??? (Begs the question, and does what??!!!)
Afterward, she holds no animus toward him?? (BIG BS!!!)
And finally, it all reinforces her hatred of white men?

bubblehead – Exactly! I think Adobe Walls was the first on here to question the truthyness of this story. I know I smell something rotten in Denmark. It just sounded so much like a story I read – some guy who escaped rape and thus helped nab a serial killer and later ran into that serial killer in prison and he then was able to convert the rapist – oh and then later the guy was cured of AIDS. It just sounded pathologically fanciful. I trust this Amanda’s story about as much as I trust that one.
I first ran into this kind of pathology in the late 80′s. I knew a doctor in training who always happened to be in the right place at the right time. He escaped a bullet because he just happened to be trying out new kevlar vests with a policeman on patrol. Or he saw lights on in his apt and used his new technology car phone to foil the burglars – cops came and all. All his stories were exciting for sure, but when you went home and really thought them through, you realized something was just too perfect about every scenario. But by then you had been suckered by the story and never called him on them. And he had no need to lie in the first place – he was successful in life! Makes me wonder if he B.S.’d his way into medical school! He was slick I tell you.

If the rape victim forgave her attacker because of her religious beliefs, I could understand that. However, such forgiveness is NOT the same as absolution. This woman absolved her attacker, and that is nearly as immoral as the rape itself.

Ms. Clouthier:
“How is it possible, after being the victim of a brutal rape, to absolve the perpetrator of guilt and point the finger at men of another color who are nowhere near one’s body? This projection is absolutely stunning and self-defeating.”

Quite.

I’m going to brutally honest and blunt here.

We are all going to be better off when we realize an age-old truth:

Some people just NEED killing.

There ain’t no saving them from the hole they dig for themselves…just can’t be reached.

in her mind has she evened the score on the white guilt thing, white people are less guilty now. roflmao this was an act of contrition? if she feels guilt of some sort she should feed the homeless in America. i can’t feel sorry for Haiti or anywhere else, they refuse to let expatriates return and do something for their country, because it will upset the power status quo. the one misdirected is her. i bet she feels stupid, and betrayed. she put her head inside the lions mouth and wonders why her head has all these bite marks.

When white people feel guilty about how non-whites have been treated in generations past, I wonder what the “payoff” is to ruminate on these feelings. Who benefits? Who is harmed? If a person has a conscience, feelings of guilt seem to be a healthly, normal response to doing something “bad.” But if someone feels guilty without actually having committed any “sins,” so to speak, then feelings of guilt become illogical, even pathological. That’s the harm. There may be a payoff or some benefit to a person feeling white guilt, but I’m afraid it’s beyond my comprehension. I just don’t get it. It really seems crazy to me.

Ironically what this woman was saying is this: ALL BLACK MEN HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE RAPISTS…but it’s not their fault. LOL. Sounds a lot like the…KKK to me.

Quite. Did she but know it, she is being extremely insulting to black men. But then a lot of the Left’s ideas about race are insulting to black people, not least affirmative action, which is tantamount to an admission that black peole are too stupid to make it on their own.

Allow me and my shovel to turn over some different “dirt” here for inspection. First, no one knows if a rape actually took place. This wouldn’t exactly be the first time a great “story” turned out to be just that a story. Think of the liberal nobility that she can garner, think of the slaps she now has the “moral authority” to lay on whites. Look at me world, but I rose above it and I can still tell it like it is. And she can be virtually certain of publication.

Second, liberals are, in their minds, morally superior to everyone else–Thomas Sowell wrote a book on this but the name leaves me. Ergo they can “assign” what ever level of guilt to what ever group and upon anyone they like. They own the moral ground upon which we all walk.

Thirdly, what if she were in fact raped? I would bet my bippy (whatever that is) that she did everything she could to assuage his guilt so he wouldn’t feel bad afterwards, “You know you really are bigger than any white man I’ve known.” LOL This would of course encourage our lad to force some other women to “help” him with his anger; having to use force you see because they just… didn’t… understand… him.

Maybe these little liberal cookies should form a rape club. Think of the anger they could extract from the world everyday. But a problem would immediately arise, whose skin would be black enough to participate? Oh, my God, the angst of it all.

We don’t have any idea what a hardship it is for liberals to live on the same planet as the rest of humanity. So what can you do with liberals? Logic, rational thinking, ethics don’t work; I’m flummoxed.

And by the way the first of this group guilt stuff, as far as I’m aware, goes back to the ‘20s, Leopold and Loeb and Bobby Franks… Clarence Darrow… “it was really society’s fault.”

The writer asks how the victim could blame her gender and society for the violence inflicted upon her.Easy answer, she’s stupid and she’s not alone in her thinking.It’s time to wake up and start winding the ropes.

And of course, she probably doesn’t realize that he is bragging to he friends that by the end of the night she was begging for it.
Maybe she will realize someday what a crime she commits against decent black men when she writes this excrement. But I imagine she is going to hear about it unless she limits her female contacts to lesbians.

I didn’t believe this story for two seconds. This woman is B.S.ing everybody so she can preen about how morally superior and forgiving she is. Amanda Kijera is using a “shock” story to peddle the usual lefty race, class, gender crapola that she’s been stewing in since college. I’d bet the ranch on this and it’s as despicable as the black professor who hangs a noose on her own office door so she can rant about racism.

If, on the off chance that I’m wrong, and this incident happened as Amanda relates it, then she is clearly mentally ill and suffering from some severe dissociative disorder.

Let’s cut to the chase. The woman HATES HATES HATES ordinary White guys. Who are “nice,” and supplicating and put her on a pedestal and kiss her behind (metaphorically). As a scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off references, where Bueller notes pal Cameron will marry the first girl to have sex with him, who in turn will despise him because after all, who can respect someone who worships you and kisses your ass, this feminist really HATES ordinary White guys.

Her political ideology is merely justification for her loathing of most White men. Who sadly for her are not Charlie Sheen or Brad Pitt. Which is why she hates them.

Does this make sense? Sure! After all the woman has money to travel to Haiti. She’s there in the first place because not many ordinary White men are there. She’s probably been surrounded by “nice” and feminized, likeable, worshipping guys like “Cameron” in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off all her life.

I’ve heard a conservative described as “a liberal who has been mugged”.

The ends this woman is going to in order to rationalize what was done to her are impressive, in a pathological way. Obviously it is the man’s fault and not anyone else’s. White men rape women also. Is that because of frustration at being oppressed? No. It’s because they feel that they can get away with it, and they don’t care if women suffer; it’s an indication of a serious character flaw in the rapist, one that makes him dangerous.

It’s a special sort of racism that excuses that in a black man, one that makes black people incapable of making ethical decisions.

I’m sorry, but what the hell is a Malcolm X Scholar?? Surely she knows that Malcolm X eventually renounced his own views?

That being said, this reminds of the BBC reporter who was kidnapped and raped repeatedly by the Taliban and when she was freed by the British military she blamed Bush for her rape because it was he who launched an unjust war against the Taliban. In order to hide their own racist views and preserve the cause of “social justice”, Progressives will contort reality.

I was going to suggest that if this woman was carrying and had placed a nice tight grouping of .357′s in center mass she would not have been raped, if indeed a rape had occurred. However, it dawned on me that a woman like this would never, ever carry for her own protection. Maybe it’s just nature’s way of eliminating the wheat from the chaff in our society.

It occurs that given her post-event mindset, it is entirely possible that any shot grouping she may have achieved just might have been into the center mass of the white fellow who was NOT about to rape her.

Please, Mr. Bumpers, the last thing any of us need is for the mentally and emotionally unbalanced,(i.e.: moonbats), to go about armed with deadly weapons.

This is the same type of thinking that dominates Arab society. It is why there is gender apartheid, veils, honor killings and female genital mutilation. Men are not responsible for their urges. It is the women and their persona. So women are deproved of their personhood and men are taught that rape is not their fault. It’s not a wonder that liberals are so accepting of Islamic theocracy.

I agree with most of the comments here. This woman’s attitude is baffling to me – the more so because I know a lot of people share it. BUT – regarding Collective Guilt; were all Germans alive in 1945 responsible for the Holocaust?

Haiti has been a free country since the early 1800s. It is 99.999% black and all of its “leaders” are black. True, it is an abject failure as a country but whitey has not been running things for quite some time (over 200 years). So, how is it whitey’s fault that this woman was raped by a black man, in an all black country, with all black leadership, a black culture, and black morals (actually morals have nothing to do with race but you get the point)?

In actuality, this woman is a bigot and a racist. She cannot hold her assailant accountable because she does not believe black men are capable of controlling themselves. She may refer to them as her “brothers,” but in her mind she thinks of them as her baby brothers.

I’m very sceptical about the validity of this womans story…..she goes to a country that happens to be predominantly black and gets raped all night by one of its citizens and somehow doesn’t think that the evil b**tard raping her is at fault? No, that doesn’t pass the smell test even for liberals with their wishful views on humanity. Nobody can be THAT stupid as to ignore such a clear and real demonstration of the absurdity of their heavily inculcated “beliefs”.

However if…IF….it is true then I weep for any chance of humanity ever achieving genuine racial and sexual equality if this womans view in any way represents bone fide liberal morals. The story is an insult to all women (and indeed men) who have suffered rape at the hands of evil self-serving neanderthal bastards of every colour, creed or gender.

Rapists need a blow-torch to be taken to their genitals not excuses from imbeciles.

Actually the bigger insight into liberal thinking (and specifically its nature as kind of a mental disorder rather than political philosophy) is not the rape itself or this poor soul’s willfully masochistic explanation of its occurrence.

Rather, it’s the fact that she was there in the first place, because only a naive, sheltered liberal would do such a foolish thing. It shows that liberals see the world as they want to see it, in every respect. They want to believe that if their motives are pure, there is less chance of harm befalling them. They want to believe that nobody is responsible for their own behavior. They want to believe that bad things are not innate in human beings, that it’s the unwitting byproduct of some societal structure that is ill-designed.

Why do they think this way? One might as well ask why children are afraid of the dark. There is no explanation, it has its roots in basic human psychological disposition.

I tend to think it’s because they are intensely averse to reality, that they cannot maintain emotional stability if they are too aware of the fact that some humans would kill or harm them. It simply interferes too greatly with their emotional well being. Schizophrenics have the same problem, an inability to filter reality. Think of a common house cat. They can sleep amidst all manner of noise and commotion not because they get used to it, but because the anatomical and biological processes of their brains physically enable them to filter it out. It is just so with liberals. They simply are not wired to filter out the general discomfort they would get from seeing the world as it is. So they pretend. It is mental illness, plain and simple.

Viewed in this light, liberals ought be protected. That is what we do with delicate and emotionally fragile creatures. It’s a shame what happened to this poor woman. I would think a conservative member of her family would know what to do to this man if he is ever apprehended.

Excellent, Mr. B. For an outstanding depiction of your accurate analysis of the mind of a liberal, rent “Tears of the Sun” starring Bruce Willis. It’s the story of a liberal female missionary doctor, (she fits the description you articulate perfectly) whose village is in danger of an imminent military raid, and Bruce Willis and his men are sent to rescue her. It’s brutally violent, but if you can stand that, it shows the misguided thinking and intense averse to reality of this woman, just like liberals.

I especially liked the child afraid of the dark and the cat analogies. Those are bull’s eyes.

Ms. Kijera’s description of her ordeal brings to mind Michael Dukakis’ response to a reporter’s question of whether he would favor the death penalty for someone who had raped and killed his wife. Pathetic.

Re: Tears of the Sun, I would be remiss if I didn’t add that in the end (spoiler alert!), Bruce Willis’ character does the right thing (The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.) by allowing the villagers to escape with them.

In the land of the PC, MC, Islamophile left wing moonbat everyone is a victim and no one is blamed or responsible for anything . Except of course White people who are the cause of all the problems and who everyone knows are the font of all evil and repression in the world. Just look at how peaceful, prosperous and law abiding all the countries of Africa have become since all the evil problem causing White devils relinquished power a over generation ago.

Whats that its not ?????? most of it has slipped back to war, corruption, tribal violence , Racism, rape, robbery, violence, hatred , slavery and poverty, well! well! well! what a SURPRISE.

And dont forget of course how progressive, intellectually advanced, egalitarian and benevolent and woman friendly the Mohammedan world is too now that wicked white people dont control them . What that thats not true either most Mohammedan countries are repressive corrupt third world undemocratic theological cesspits except of curse for those with Oil which are prosperous but still undemocratic and repressive but even then they needed the wicked white man to find recover and invent things to use that oil for as the Muslims could not even find what was right beneath their feet. Well I am surprised.

What the liberal mind is passionate about is a world filled with
pity, sorrow, neediness, misfortune, poverty, suspicion, mistrust,
anger, exploitation, discrimination, victimization, alienation and
injustice.

Those who occupy this world are “workers,” “minorities,” “the little
guy,” “women,” and the “unemployed.”

They are poor, weak, sick, wronged, cheated, oppressed,
disenfranchised, exploited and victimized. They bear no
responsibility for their problems.

None of their agonies are attributable to faults or failings of their
own: not to poor choices, bad habits, faulty judgment, wishful thinking,
lack of ambition, low frustration tolerance, mental illness or
defects in character.

None of the victims’ plight is caused by failure to plan for the
future or learn from experience.

Eric – excellent point. I was just reading about Jefferson and the Barbary wars the other day. Heck, if you want to see how far back you can go, Moses was a slave, and Xerxes would have been very happy to enslave the Greeks if he could have made it past the Spartans at Thermopylae.

Kajera is clearly mentally ill. But the sentiment she expresses is entirely mainstream in feminist and progressive thought. Alice Walker has written approvingly of such views — and her writing on the subject of white women being responsible for being raped by black men is required reading in many women’s studies programs. The letters and memoirs of white female civil rights activists are littered with such self-loathing apologies (can’t call them apologetics) — ditto those of some of their non-white and/or non-female peers, berating rape victims for not feeling appropriate shame. Even worse are the memoirs by children, or naive young women forced into these setting by their parents or activist husbands. The notion that offering oneself for sexual use was a corrective to societal prejudice was widely practiced, and Ayers is far from the only movement leader to be accused of setting up “educational” rape rooms. People like Susan Brownmiller who criticized this behavior found themselves drummed out and labeled racist. She wrote some very interesting things about this back in the Seventies.

Tina Trent, do you have any links or books you can recommend on this subject? I’ve always heard that many of the supposed “social justice” movements in the sixties were really exploitative of women, and I’d like to learn more about it.

This is disturbing. I have to admit, something just seems really off about this story. One of her coworkers abducts her and rapes her just when she’s in the middle of writing a story on this very subject? And her reaction is…not anger and rage at the man who attacked her, to use this trauma to make a point about how her rapist wasn’t at fault, but it was the patriarchy’s fault? (And good one to whoever pointed out upthread that what she’s really saying at bottom is that all black males are potential rapists–offensive much, anyone?)

For her own sake, I hope this story isn’t true. If it *is* true, then I devoutly hope she gets the therapy she needs to deal with this appropriately and place the blame right where it belongs–on the shoulder of the man who attacked her.

While Narcissism seeks to kill the G-d of our forebearers, Hysterical Feminism seeks to kill the cultural traditions of millenia. Both are goals that rival Genesis, and yet both are succeeding. From clinical experience I have learned, never underestimate the power and determination of pathology(EVIL.) Remember Faust.

As with most personality disorders, the diagnostic hallmarks of the histrionic are the evolved childish protections against the knock, knock (or Tick, Tock) of anxiety and maturation. They are the protection against the universal impulse for union and procreation. The monster under the bed has been displaced by anything which smacks of the “masculine”. The anxiety of becoming a responsible parent has been displaced by the eraser of abortion – the power to kill responsibility. The need for security has been replaced with the demand for government entitlement (another person’s money) without having to struggle with human reciprocity. I am woman, just hear me roar!

(This article first appeared in the January 20, 1992 edition of Citizen magazine)

How Planned Parenthood Duped America

At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the “black” and “yellow” peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.

There’s another error of thinking in this woman’s account, too. She claims that women of color bear the brunt of the black man’s anger. This isn’t true, of course – a glance at any statistics shows that angry men of any color assault and even kill other men far more than they assault women.

Men are overwhelmingly the victims of violence, not women, even when you count rape.

It is nice to know that my mother’s rape and degrading experience is found amusing by the American people. you have truly proven you are truly as ignorant as she has claimed you to be. Narcissist and antagonist, all of you. You have degraded yourself and your nation that you so claim are a fairly based country. Yet you refuse to except the fact your ancestors were narcissistic antagonists.

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Did you actually read the excerpts you quoted? Nowhere does the writer absolve the rapist of guilt. She very clearly says that his anger is misdirected; ie, that he is wrong to have attacked her or any other woman, despite whatever injustices he may have suffered.